On Shaving
Mar. 3rd, 2003 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI've just come back from a two-hour-long workout in the gym. My favourite element of the post-gym experience--yes, even including the sauna--is the post-gym shave.
My facial hair, unlike the facial hair of some other people, grows copiously. A once-daily shave is barely sufficient; sometimes, I have to shave twice a day. In another lifetime, I would have been a hairy barbarian--you know, one of those unshaven wild people who lives in the north and descends with his cohort upon one unsuspecting settled civilization or another (China, Rome, Persia, India) once every millennium. Come to think of it, I do live to the north of a large prosperous settled civilization.
Back to shaving. Shaving after a workout is fun, if only because my muscles are relaxed and the sweat is enough to serve as a useful substitute for lather. Post-gym shave susually proceed quickly and smoothly for me, now that I've gotten the hang of them, and they leave my face nicely smooth. I like the end result, but the process is fun, too: Making my face a slightly less fractal surface is always fun.
My facial hair, unlike the facial hair of some other people, grows copiously. A once-daily shave is barely sufficient; sometimes, I have to shave twice a day. In another lifetime, I would have been a hairy barbarian--you know, one of those unshaven wild people who lives in the north and descends with his cohort upon one unsuspecting settled civilization or another (China, Rome, Persia, India) once every millennium. Come to think of it, I do live to the north of a large prosperous settled civilization.
Back to shaving. Shaving after a workout is fun, if only because my muscles are relaxed and the sweat is enough to serve as a useful substitute for lather. Post-gym shave susually proceed quickly and smoothly for me, now that I've gotten the hang of them, and they leave my face nicely smooth. I like the end result, but the process is fun, too: Making my face a slightly less fractal surface is always fun.
